u/RingHonest7272

For years I’ve been wanting to astral project. but I just felt like the traditional techniques weren’t for me. I gave up on it and began focusing on the goal of lucid dreaming. i started using a dream journal and y’all my dream recall was incredible. my dreams felt so fulfilling, the way they became so fleshed out and cohesive. I would have 3-4 dreams a night, sometimes i would even go to sleep in my dreams which felt even more refreshing and rejuvenating.

This was almost a year ago now. 1 night, I had a dream that I was on YouTube and I had found videos that would help me fall asleep and dream, I would watch the videos, fall asleep and then I would dream. So I was having a dream within a dream and because of that I think it became too overstimulating and it would wake me up, this happened several times. wake up from the dream, go back to sleep, get overstimulated and wake up. after the 4th wake up I thought maybe this would be a good opportunity to try and astral project as I’ve heard you can astral project from dreams. I went back to sleep, saw that vivid dream and said to myself “yep I’m dreaming get up” I sat up and I felt this rumble inside my dream, i realised it wasn’t my physical body that sat up, it was my astral body.

I was out of the dream I could see my bedroom walls, felt this almost painful ear piercing sound like a high frequency. Felt this rough tumble sensation and I was officially out of my body. My first ever astral projection.

I really thought that this would be the start of something cool, like a first big step into astral projection journey. but ever since that time my dreaming recall is no where near what it was and i haven’t been able to astral project again either. I went from dreaming 4 times a night to maybe 2 dreams a week. i still write them down in my journal but no improvement. any ideas on what you think happened and how I can repair it? I miss dreaming.